Of Deathclaws & Radscorpions: A Fallout Thread

you're all sick

Not me! I took enough Rad-Away and I'm back to normal!

hmm, after getting to level 20 everything seems a little futile. I could complete the main quest, which I'm pretty sure I'm right at the end of. Might just kill or trick in to slavery everyone I can to see if I get some sort of special award for being so evil.

lol, u guys.
I'm apparently too good to get involved with slavers; my little PIP boy karma character has now taken on a robe, long hair and a beard and looks like Jesus.

I don't even know what Mezzers are!

yeah, im jesus right now too.

what is with the "pants exploded" tally, btw?

i got in a extended firefight with the dudes from the military base (i think they shot me while trying to shoot a bloatfly oops) and stopped my freeforall killspree when i saw that my karma was plummeting, because this supergood deal is giving me loads of benefits.

that being said, cant wait to play through a second time as a horrible bastard.

also, got dogmeat killed and did an oldsave for the first time because i felt really bad ;_;

i am such a overblown fanboy for this game, srsly.

yeah, same with my dog from Oblivion(and Fable II when I finally play it). I can't handle having my dog get killed.

In other news, I found the repeating rifle. FUCK yeah.

does the game still use the SPECIAL system?

The SPECIAL system is still there, yes.

Abe Lincoln's repeater gave about double the damage of my best gun at the stage that I picked it up. Only trouble was I kept running out of ammo for it.

'Exploding Pants' = use a stealth boy and then sneak up beside an enemy. Pickpocket. When you take everything from them, switch out to 'give' mode and put a frag mine in their inventory. Jump back and watch the fun as they try to figure out what's going on and then WHOOOMP there it is

oh hahahahahah ok going to have to try that

ah, I just read about that yesterday on one of my loading screens, hadn't done it yet.

Same way I played through Gears of War 2 and didn't realise until five minutes 'til the end that you got 'nade tag people by doing a melee attack on them while you had a 'nade in your hand. Lose.

Exploding pants also gets you some achievement points the first time you do it if thats your thing.

I just exploding panted the guy in megaton who stands preaching at the bomb all day; doofus

wish that worked with the guy in GTA IV

I was totally expecting the megaton church to freak out on me when I disarmed the bomb, but it doesn't seem like he even noticed?

http://auctions.samsclub.com/scripts/ListingInfo.asp?LotNo=79620374

haha:

-The BoS statue itself weighs 121 pounds and is 7' 11" in height; its base is 2.6' x 2.7'

-Easy assembly instructions are included with the shipment

http://community.livejournal.com/vault13/

spoilers, obv

don't agree w/this game's morals some times eg I just went to tenpenny tower and agreed to kill roy the ghoul but then when I went and talked to roy the ghoul he persuaded me to kill the body nazi elitists in tenpenny tower but I got bar karma for helping these poor dudes who are forced to live in tunnels under the world, but I would have got good karma for killing them?? ffffffffff that; anyway, tenpenny tower is a mess now and I accidentally got carried away and killed the chick I was supposed to mezz in there : /

I am an "evil marauder" now apparently : / maybe cos I mezzed tht chick in big town too

I accidentally stumbled across vault 112 last night and completely fucked up my progression in the main quest. I had only done the very first mission in the main story line and had everything replaced, thus kinda missing out on the entire plot. Needless to say I had to go back quite a bit and lost about 3 hours worth of raider killing and looting.

I'm confused. Why did stumbling across vault 112 fuck up your main quest?

Oh, I just looked it up. Apparently it forwards the quest to that point and skips all the necessary information from beforehand.

I debated pressing on with it since I just slayed everyone in the outside area of Evergreen Mills but I'll be back...

I snuck in and blew up the generator next to the Super Mutant Behemoth pen at Evergreen Mills. The resulting carnage wasn't as great as I was hoping but it was definitely worth it.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/fallout-3-outsells-all-previous-titles-in-the-series-combined

Fallout 3 outsells all previous titles in the series combined
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Bethesda's Fallout 3 has hit the top of the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC charts in the UK.

The game has outsold combined sales in the region of the original Fallout and its sequel, and spin-off titles Fallout Tactics and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel.

First week sales were also 57 per cent stronger than the first week performance of Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

According to data from GfK Chart-Track, 55 per cent of all sales were on the Microsoft format, 28 per cent on Sony's home console and 17 per cent for the PC...
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http://planetmedia.gamespy.com/wiki/planetfallout.gamespy.com/default/uploads/3/36/Special03.jpg

holy shit, i didn't know this was active again:

http://fallout.blackisle.com/

Apparently it forwards the quest to that point and skips all the necessary information from beforehand.

wtf? that sucks

is FOT any good?

if by that you mean tactics, no

i helped the zombies at tenpenny too. it is cute when you go back later ^_^ I started off all holier than thou but have slid to neutral. side quest note: no ear if you sandman someone is kind of bullshit.

i have just arrived at vault 112. have spent a lot of time mindlessly fucking around, of course, and intend to continue with that, so i have two questions:

1. am i near the end of main quest
2. does completing main quest finish the game?

i am just a few stimpaks shy of 200. i think i maybe could've played this on hard.

2. finishing the main quest does finish the game : /

AVAST! that makes the answer to Q1 even more important then.

You got a little ways left to go I think. Just know that once you hit the Brotherhood of Steel's HQ, don't go any further w/ the main quest.

sweet, cheers dude

I think safely you can play until escaping from Ravenrock on the main quest. After that, don't go back to Brotherhood unless you're ready to finish things up.

interactive map

http://planetfallout.gamespy.com/maps/1/Capital-Wasteland

loving this game. what do people think the best specialities are?

if it's anything like the first two games, then a throwing/gambling specialist should easily dominate the wastelands~

I'm gonna start playing this soon. Should I play on medium or hard?

Play on hard.
I invested heavily in lockpick, science, sneak and small guns. Seems to be working okay.

hard, or else it will go too fast.

i went explosives, small guns, and sneak. chucking grenades around is fun b/c you get to hear the slow-mo "oooooooohhhhh shiiiiiiiiiit"

i also blew way too many points in perception at the start which is not all that valuable.

Small Guns is pretty important. You'll likely be using them through most of the game whether you like it or not. I would also suggest Lockpick.